Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century

by Alice Clark

5d. and meat and drink, or 10d. without, to

1s. and meat and drink, or 2s. without

Women’s wages varied in the hay harvest from:—

1d. and meat and drink, or 4d. without, to

6d. and meat and drink, or 1s. without

and in the corn harvest from:—

2d. and meat and drink, or 6d. without, to

6d. and meat and drink, or 1s. without

The variations in these wages correspond with the price of corn in different parts of England and must not be regarded as necessarily representing differences in the real value of wages.

[104]. Society of Antiquarians of Scotland, vol. xxxix, p. 125. Dame Margaret Nicholson’s Account Book.